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Khosla received a B.Tech (Hons) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-one of the prestigious universities of India, in 1980. After graduating he worked in the area of real-time control with Tata Consulting Engineers and Siemens until 1982.
By 1986 he received both an MS and PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where he joined as an assistant professor. He rose through the ranks and was appointed University Professor in 2008, which is the highest rank attianable by a Professor. He has held several administrative and leadership positions at CMU including: Founding Director, Carnegie Mellon CyLab; Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, Information Networking Institute; and Founding Director, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES). In 2004 Khosla was appointed Dean of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, a five-year term which that was renewed in July 2009.
From January 1994 to August 1996 Khosla was on leave from CMU and served as Program Manager at DARPA, where he managed a $50M portfolio of programs in real-time systems, internet-enabled software infrastructure, intelligent systems, and distributed systems.
Khosla also worked as a consultant to several companies and venture capitalists and has served on the technology advisory boards of many start-ups. Currently he serves on the advisory boards for iNetworks LLC, ITU Ventures, and Alcoa CIO’s Advisory Board. He is involved with iNetworks in raising a biotechnology fund called BioVentures, and is co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Quantapoint Inc., BioMetricore Inc., and No Fuss Inc. He also serves on the board of Directors of HCL Infosystems, the Children’s Institute, the IIT Foundation, Mellon-Pitt (MPC) corporation, the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI), the Doyle Center, and the Pittsburgh Technology Council. In addition, he serves on the advisory boards of several universities and Government organizations. He is a member of the IT advisory committee, CSIRO, Australia, ITU High Level Experts Group for the Global Cybersecurty Agenda (GCA), a member of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) for NIST, and a member of World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Innovation. He has served on the Strategy Review Board of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Council of Deans of the Aeronautics Advisory Committee, NASA; National Research Council Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design; member of eTreasury Pennsylvania Advisory Board (Appointed by Pennsylvania Treasurer Robin Weissman), and Senior Advisory Group for the DARPA Program on Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems.
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